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W David Hancock

W DAVID HANCOCK  

 Nationality:    USA
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below is a list of W David Hancock's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

 Convention Of Cartography         Our Lot         Puzzle Locker, The         Race Of The Ark Tattoo, The         With A Dead March

Convention Of Cartography

Synopsis:
The curator and his wife talk about Mike - an artist, poet and drifter who left poems hidden in obscure places for people to find

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1st Produced:
CSPS, Midwest Center for Developing artists in Cedar Rapids, Iowa    -

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1st Published:
Contained in: "Play - a Journal Of Plays" issue one   -

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Our Lot

Synopsis:
This is part of Clubbed Thumb's annual Summerworks Festival. Faced with the task of cleaning out their dead step-father's stuff from their crumbling childhood home, alice, Kathy, and Stig and their Iraq war vet friend, Toby, gather one last time and grapple with a haunted van, albert Einstein's chalk, and a shed full of repressed family memories. Our Lot is an homage to America's need for "collections."
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
written by Kristin Newbom And W. David Hancock

1st Produced:
HERE arts Center - Mainstage
145 6th avenue, New York, NY 10013    12 Jun 2011

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Clubbed Thumb

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Puzzle Locker, The

Synopsis:
at a school for exceptionally gifted children reality blurs and the dead co-exist with the living

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1st Produced:
Theatres Mainstage, University of Iowa    02 Mar 2006

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Race Of The Ark Tattoo, The

Synopsis:
The ingenious conceit behind this play by American writer David Hancock is that it is never the same performance twice. The playing area is done up like a flea market, and a sloppily lettered sign announces: "Lecture by Mr P Foster to start at 1.10pm." The solo actor, David Heap, has an open, childlike manner, but quickly explains why: he is a former foster child who has suffered permanent memory loss because of drugs he took to control his temper. audience members pull bits of junk out of a toy camper van proffered by Foster - his "story ark" - and he tells us about the artifacts, aided by decrepit cue cards. These were passed down, Foster tell us, from his foster father, Homer Phinney. The audience slowly realise that Phinney is partly present on stage: by changing his vocal register, Heap switches back and forth between the father's and the son's accounts of past events.
Karen Fricker, The Guardian

Notes:
It subsequently toured the East Coast, which included A performance At Alice's Fourth Floor for Artistic Associate Melanie Joseph, who later remounted the play As part of her launch of the very successful Foundry Theatre Company. Midwest Center, A company I was President of, co-produced the Foundry's first show, W. David Hancock's Convention of Cartography ) (http://www.ristentltd.com/professional/cart.php), which garnered An Obie that year for best new play.
- Todd Ristau, producer And the Actor who first created the role.

1st Produced:
CSPS, Midwest Center for Developing artists in Cedar Rapids, Iowa    -

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Genre:
Solo, 75 min One act

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Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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With A Dead March

Synopsis:
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1st Produced:
New City Theater, Seattle    2005

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